Action Quote by Alan Bennett

“I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.”

— Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more…

— Robert Gottlieb

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

— Anonymous

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

— Zadie Smith

I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the…

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

— Salman Rushdie

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy,…

— Louise Erdrich

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain…

— Maria Konnikova

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of…

— Mary Roach

“Books give knowledge. Mistakes gives experience.”

— Jury Nel

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you…

— Arthur Schopenhauer